Kotey Place, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lander census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. It stands on Twin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weiser Pass quadrangle. It stands 5,449 feet above sea level.

Kotey Place within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Weiser Pass quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Lander quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Kotey Place between 1994 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 24 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	24
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Lander Field Office	CEDAR RIDGE
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Lander Field Office	HIDDEN
17 September 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	CEDRIDGE
15 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Lander Field Office	JOHNNY
14 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lander Field Office	ROCK
9 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Lander Field Office	DALLAS DOME
9 August 1996	Smoking	1.5 acres	Rawlins Field Office	MP #64
7 August 2019	Natural	2.9 acres	Lander Field Office	CLANTON

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kotey Place: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dry Lake Area	Uranium	Unknown
Pan Group	Uranium	Unknown
Pat #2	Uranium	Occurrence
Dallas Anticline # 2	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Dallas Anticline #1	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Derby Anticline	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lander	10.0 miles	12
Wyopo	10.1 miles	12
Hudson	12.6 miles	11
Miners Delight	13.8 miles	12
Milford	14.2 miles	10
Boulder Flats	16.6 miles	10
Atlantic City	17.1 miles	10
Arapahoe	17.5 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q6433948

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597373. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.